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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Deptford 1904
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1904
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SUMMARY OF VITAL AND MORTAL STATISTICS
FOR 1904.
Area 1,574 acres
Population —
Census 1901 110,398
Estimated to middle of 1904 113,634
Number of inhabited houses (Census 1901) 15,823
Average number of persons per house (Census 1901) 7
Density 71 per acre
Marriages 704
Births 3,265
Birth-rate 28-73
Deaths 1,824
Death-rate 16-05
Infantile Mortality 149 per 1,000 births.